Christopher Keck was on his way to work March 22 when his car was hit head-on.

"He was my very best friend," said Nicole Keck.

She said she misses their daily phone calls, his presence at home and the role he played as the father to their five children.

She said the hole that the crash left in her family has been slow to heal, if it ever will.

"It's been difficult," she said. "I think probably for the first three or four months, it was fairly chaotic just trying to deal with everybody's grief."

She said her husband was the strong one in the family, someone she described as a peacemaker and her rock.

"So when something like this happens and he's not there, I think, especially for my boys, that was really difficult," Keck said.

She said her children are the one most frustrated by the fact that no one has been charged. Authorities know who was driving the car that hit Christopher Keck, but final investigations and conclusions remain incomplete.

She said she was told that the case might take two or three months, never imagining that it would stretch to eight and still not offer any closure.

"It just seems really unfair. The whole thing is unfair. The accident, to begin with, is unfair," she said. "This man was extremely irresponsible and that led up to the death of my husband, my kids' father. And it should be, something should be done."

The Kansas Highway Patrol said it needed final blood-alcohol and drug screenings to move ahead with the case. The tests are performed by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, which said it signed off on the drug screening last summer and the blood-alcohol test in October.

Nicole Keck said she credits counseling and the support of her church, family and friends for helping to guide her family through the tough months.